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Toward a World Without Nuclear Weapons 2016 TOWARD A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS 2016 Report of the Joint Media Project The news articles, analyses and opinions in this report were published on line between April 2015 and March 2016. These can be accessed freely on: www.nuclearabolition.info. Copyright © IPS-Inter Press Service Japan Publisher: Global Cooperation Council IPS-Inter Press Service Germany’s umbrella Organization Marienstr. 19-20 D - 10117 Berlin Global Coordinator | Editor-in-Charge: Ramesh Jaura Project Director: Katsuhiro Asagiri President IPS Japan Ichimura Bldg. 4F, 3-2 Kanda Ogawa-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101-0052 | Japan Design: Kaho Okuda For further information on Cover Image: Memorial Ceno- Image: Nagasaki National Peace creative commons licenses used taph, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Memorial Hall for the Atomic refer to Park. Bomb Victims https://creativecommons.org/ Image credit: BriYYZ CC BY-SA Image credit: Aude CC BY-SA 3.0 licenses/ 2.0 HIROTSUGU TERASAKI Vice President, Soka Gakkai, Executive Director For Peace Affairs, Soka Gakkai International As observed by various international efforts for peace and nuclear disarmament, last year marked the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The international community is now entering a new phase of concrete discussions focused on the entire elimination of all nuclear weapons. At this time many countries are calling for the negotiation of a new nuclear weapons prohibition treaty to form the first step toward elimination of all such weapons. Nuclear-weapon states and their allies assert that such negotiation would be premature insisting that current security concerns legitimize their stance. They argue that while nuclear weapons exist, they have no choice but to maintain their own nuclear deterrents. The Open-ended Working Group taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations convened in February, May and August 2016 at the United Nations Office at Geneva. During the second session of the Open-ended Working Group held in May, the SGI submitted a working paper titled “Nuclear weapons and human security” which emphasized that “the challenge of nuclear disarmament is not something that concerns only the nuclear-weapon States; it must be a truly global enterprise involving all States and fully engaging civil society. All States have an obligation to promote and participate in good faith negotiations for disarmament, bringing them to a successful conclusion.” As Buddhists we uphold the inherent value and dignity of life, the aforementioned working paper states “at the heart of the nuclear weapons issues is the radical negation of others,” and urges “this can only be countered through a sustained effort to expand our individual and shared capacities for imaginative empathy.” This working paper has been recorded as UN document A/AC.286/NGO/17. Together with other faith groups, the SGI issued a joint statement calling for urgent action for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. During the Open-ended Working Group session we asserted that starting the negotiation of a legal framework prohibiting nuclear weapons is both timely and necessary. In his 2009 proposal “Building Global Solidarity Toward Nuclear Abolition,” Daisaku Ikeda, president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), observed: “If nuclear weapons epitomize the forces that would divide and destroy the world, they can only be overcome by the solidarity of ordinary citizens, which transforms hope into the energy to create a new era.” Faced with the daunting challenges before us, we stand at an important juncture in history. Calls for the legal prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons as a first step toward a world finally and permanently free from nuclear weapons are mounting. The SGI will continue striving to strengthen and expand citizens’ solidarity, increasing the momentum that will lead to a world free from nuclear weapons. DAVID KRIEGER President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (www.wagingpeace.org). The most stunning truth about the Nuclear Age is this: Nuclear weapons are capable of destroying civilization and most complex life on the planet and very little is being done to remedy this overriding danger. Humanity is experiencing the “frog’s malaise.” It is as though the human species has been placed into a pot of tepid water and is content to calmly sit there while the temperature rises to the boiling point. There is virtually no political will on the part of national leaders to alter this dangerous situation and, despite legal obligations to negotiate in good faith for an end to the nuclear arms race and for nuclear disarmament, there is no major effort among the nuclear-armed countries to achieve nuclear zero. Sadly, while the non-nuclear weapon states are meeting to discuss filling the legal gap to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons, those countries that possess the weapons are purposefully absent from the discussions. Each of the nine nuclear-armed countries is not only boycotting international discussions on banning and eliminating nuclear weapons. Each of these nine countries is in the process of modernizing its nuclear arsenal, wasting valuable resources on weapons that must never be used and doing so while basic human needs for billions of people go unmet and unattended. Despite this unjust and deplorable situation, most of the seven billion people on the planet are complacent about nuclear weapons. This only adds fuel to the fire under the frogs. In the Nuclear Age, humanity is challenged as never before. Our technology, and particularly our nuclear weapons, can destroy us. But before we can respond to the profound dangers, we must first awaken to these dangers. Complacency is a recipe for disaster. I find complacency to be rooted in ACID, an acronym for Apathy, Conformity, Ignorance and Denial. If we want to prevail over our technologies we must move from Apathy to Empathy; from Conformity to Critical Thinking; from Ignorance to Wisdom; and from Denial to Recognition of the danger. But how are we to do this? The key is education – education that promotes engagement; education that forces individuals and nations to face the truth about the dangers of the Nuclear Age. Education can take many forms, but it must begin with solid analysis of current dangers and critiques of the lack of progress in stemming the dangers of the Nuclear Age. We need education that is rooted in the common good. We need education that provides a platform for the voices of the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We need education that makes clear the instability and theoretical nature of nuclear deterrence. We need education that challenges the extreme hubris of leaders who believe the global nuclear status quo can survive human fallibility and malevolence. We need education that can break through the bonds of nuclear insanity and move the world to action for nuclear zero. With regard to such education on nuclear dangers, I applaud the work of the International Peace Syndicate’s flagship agency IDN-InDepthNews and its partners, with valuable support from Soka Gakkai International. Their goal is to educate for a nuclear weapons- Image credit: Michael Day CC 2.0 free world. May they continue to be a strong voice for sanity in a world deeply in need of what they have to offer. Contents Nuclear Weapons Challenge the World’s Highest Court By Ramesh Jaura 08 Japan and Kazakhstan Campaign for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty By Ramesh Jaura 10 New Study Says Next Generation Remains Oblivious To Nuclear Dangers By Rodney Reynolds 12 Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons High on UN Agenda in 2016 By Jamshed Baruah 14 World’s Major Powers, in ‘Shameful Behaviour’, Opt out of Nuclear Resolution By Rodney Reynolds 16 Nuclear-Weapons-Free Africa Keen To Harness Atomic Energy By Jeffrey Moyo 18 UN Plans New Working Groups Aimed at Nuclear Disarmament By Thalif Deen 20 Australia Under Heavy Criticism For Nuclear Agreement with India By Neena Bhandari 22 Saudi Nuclear Blustering Remains Hollow – for Now By Emad Mekay 24 International Partnership Updates on Nuclear Disarmament Verification By Fabíola Ortiz 26 EU Gives Additional Funds to Promote Entry into Force of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty By Jaya Ramachandran 28 Nuke Disarmament Groups Ask Obama and Putin to ‘Reduce Nuclear Risks By Ramesh Jaura 30 Kazakh and Japan Go ‘Aggressive’ for Entry into Force of Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty By Fabiola Ort 32 U.S. 100th Member State to Join Nuke Terrorism Treaty By Thalif Deen 34 Japan and Kazakh to Facilitate Entry into Force of Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty By Kanya D’Almeida 36 Nuke Test Ban Treaty Still in Limbo, U.N. Complains By Thalif Deen 38 Opinion: Can Nuclear War be Avoided? By Gunnar Westberg 39 Opinion: Campaign to End Nuclear Tests - Kazakhstan Launches ATOM By Kairat Abdrakhmano 40 Opinion: Nuclear States Do Not Comply with the Non-Proliferation Treaty By Farhang Jahanpour 42 ‘Generation of Change’ Pleads for Walking the Nuclear Abolition Talk By Ronald Joshua 44 Disarmament Conference Ends with Ambitious Goal – But How to Get There? By Ramesh Jaura 46 Call for Global Ban on Nuclear Weapons Testing By Katsuhiro Asagiri and Ramesh Jaura 48 Hiroshima and Nagasaki Mayors Plead for a Nuclear Weapons Free World By Ramesh Jaura 50 Learning from Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic BomBings By Katsuhiro Asagiri 52 No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, Vows U.N. Chief By Thalif Deen 54 Pacific Island Countries Want a World Without Nuclear Weapons By Neena Bhandari 56 Security Council Defies U.S. Lawmakers By Voting on Iran Nuke Deal By Thalif Deen 58 The Myths About the Nuclear Deal With Iran By Thalif Deen 60 Perfecting Detection of the BomB By Ramesh Jaura 62 CTBTO, the Nuclear Watchdog That Never Sleeps By Thalif Deen 64 World’s Nuke Arsenal Declines Haltingly While Modernisation Rises Rapidly By Thalif Deen 66 Nuclear Weapons Free World No Lost Cause By Jamshed Baruah 68 Failure of Review Conference Brings World Close to Nuclear Cataclysm, Warn Activists By Thalif Deen 70 Opinion: Universalisation and Strengthening Nuke Treaty Review Need to Be Qualitative By AmBassador A.
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